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Author Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742.

Title A dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris [microform] : with an answer to the objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, esquire / by Richard Bentley, D.D. chaplain in ordinary and library-keeper to His Majesty.

Imprint London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock, and John Hartley, 1699.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets  LEL 11977    ---  Available
Description xcii, 549 [i.e. 545], [10] p. ; 20 cm.
Series Library of English literature ; LEL 11977
Note Page 545 misnumbered 549.
Includes index.
An expansion of the author's essay that appeared in W. Wotton's Reflections upon ancient and modern learning (1697)
Written to disprove the authenticity of the epistles of Phalaris, which Boyle (the editor of the epistles) had defended in his 'Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the epistles of Phalaris and the fables of Aesop' (1698) cf. Dictionary of national biography.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11977)
Note s 1976 ilu n
Subject Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, active 6th century B.C.
Orrery, Charles Boyle, Earl of, 1676-1731. Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris.

 
    
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